Public Safety committee  I will ask my colleagues from the RCMP to answer your question.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chairman. The process is a simplified process. The application will be fairly simplified in terms of applying for an expungement. Victims are asked to provide evidence that they meet the three criteria in terms of providing police records or cou

Public Safety committee  I'll maybe turn to the Parole Board for that response.

Public Safety committee  The proposed legislation looks very similar to the ones that have been put forward in other countries. It's a simplified application. Most countries allow applications posthumously. There's only one jurisdiction—I think it's South Australia— that doesn't allow it. Most countries

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I understand there's not a lot of time allocated this afternoon, so I'll be very brief. Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak to you about Bill C-66. My name is Kathy Thompson. I am the assistant deputy minister for community safety and count

Justice committee  I'm happy to talk about the pilot project that Public Safety and the RCMP ran with seven different police forces across the country. I'll ask Ms. Huggins to speak specifically about the false positive rates. As you indicated, the pilot was run across the country in December, in

Justice committee  I was going to start. Go ahead.

Justice committee  Yes, just to add very quickly to that, we too rely on the DDC, but have also undertaken our own research, which shows the exact same thing about saliva. While it's very useful for law enforcement to have the oral fluid screening device for detection, and it helps them to build re

Justice committee  No.

Justice committee  The campaign was launched in March through a social media Twitter campaign, which in our experience is the best way to target youth. That is our principal audience, although there are other audiences as well, particularly when we look at the polling. Particularly young males 18 t

Justice committee  It has been building up.

Justice committee  I'm just going to turn to Ms. Huggins to see if we can get clarification.

Justice committee  Yes, it's accredited by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the RCMP oversees the program.

Justice committee  It takes approximately three weeks, with one week of accreditation.

Justice committee  With respect to drug recognition experts, there are currently 600. The objective is to augment that by approximately 250, approximately 750 to 800. The reason for that is because there's actually a very high turnover in those positions. In order to constantly be filling those pos